This was the week that many conservationists were dreading because there was a compromise on the table at the International Whaling Commissions annual Meeting in Morroco. The deal was supposed to spare lives while giving up the moratorium on commercial whaling by allowing Japan, Norway and Iceland to whale under very strict guidelines, to slaughter whales within smaller quotas than the ones they follow today.
For many like me, this compromise was still too many whales killed. Many scientists agreed that the quotas agreed to were unsustainable under any circumstance and no matter how closely they were monitored.
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